Indian Railways created a new world benchmark by commissioning 1st high rise OverHead Equipment (OHE), which has contact wire height of 7.57 metre and successfully run double stack containers in electrified territory on Western Railway. This tremendous achievement is a first of its kind in the entire world and will also boost the ambitious mission of Green India as a latest green initiative over Indian Railways. With this remarkable development, Indian Railways has proudly become the first Railway to runDouble Stack Container train with high reach pantograph in high rise OHE territory, the Operations of which successfully commenced on 10th June, 2020 from Palanpur & Botad stations in Gujarat.
The thrust of such kind of initiatives is on innovation, speed and customisation in freightoperations. Inspite of time that was lost under Covid Lockdown Ministry is focussing tosurpass the last years freight figures.From 1st April 2020 to 10th June 2020 Indian Railways has transported 178.68 milliontonnes of commodities through its uninterrupted 24X7 freight trains operations acrossthe country.From 24.03.2020 to 10.06.2020 more than 32.4 lacs wagons carried supplies to keepthe supply chain functional. Of these, more than 18 lacs wagons carried essentialcommodities like food grains, salt, sugar, milk, edible oil, onions, fruits & vegetables,petroleum products, coal, fertilizers etc. throughout the country.
During the period 1st April 2020 to 10th June, 2020 Railways loaded 12.74 million tonnes of food grains as compared to 6.79 million tonnes in the same period last year.Apart from this, from 22.03.2020 to 10.06.2020 total 3,897 Parcel Trains have also been run out by Indian Railways of which 3,790 are time-tabled trains. Total 1,39,196 tonnes of consignment have been loaded in these Parcel Trains.
Indian railways have done lots of achievement during last 5 years. This is added to the cap of IR. Great